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Strategies For Success: Don’t Self-Promote

In today’s me-centric culture, self promotion is the norm. My least favorite self proclamation is when people use words like “Guru” when speaking about themselves. My good friend Morgan taught […]

Lessons in Managing Your Emotional Calories For Optimal Output

Are you tired? Worn out? A little dull and not sure why? Flirting with burnout? Have you been pushing hard? Just finished a long season of insane work hours? You’ve […]

Be Generous and Become Wealthy

People say they are generous, but most are not. Donations are not necessarily the same as being generous. I donate our household items to Goodwill that we no longer need. […]

Be the Hero of Your Life

Sometimes I feel like I’m viewing the world through a GoPro camera on slow-motion frame-by-frame…stop..start..pause…play. I watch other people seemingly unburdened and able to live in real-time without the bothersome […]

Don’t Be Afraid to Ask, “Why?”

I want to share a conversation that reminded me of the importance of asking, “why are we doing this?” Me: Tell me about how you do your job. Co-worker: When […]

You’ve Got Mad Skills

An excerpt from Fire Your Boss: A Manifesto to Rethink How You Think About Work. The World Needs You I’m going to assume that you’re reading this manifesto because something […]

Rest Like a Dog Sledding Champion

I learned the hard way that I am not a robot. For decades I pushed myself to the brink of depression and emotional exhaustion. When I was younger, I was […]

Scarcity and Abundance: What Do You Believe?

A single mother raised me. Growing up, I watched her despairingly pay for groceries using food stamps. I mowed lawns to pay for my school clothes. On more than one […]

How To Be an Artist by Sark

How to Be an Artist- by Sark Our friends the Teem’s have this poster hanging in their children’s bedroom. I wonder what shape my life would have taken, had I […]

How to Explain Your Idea Simply

How to Explain Your Idea Simply I’ve suffered through so many unnecessarily complicated presentations, speakers, films, interviews, talks, articles, PowerPoint decks, conference calls, white papers, websites, case studies, user documents-the […]